The Bets

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With this mini-expansion you place bets on how many tiles a road or a city will consist of upon completion. Influence these areas in your favor and get the extra points.

General info and comments

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Expansion symbol

The Bets was originally released by Hans im Glück in 2022.

This expansion doesn't exist for the 1st edition (C1 for short) or the 2nd edition (C2 for short).

This expansion has cities with clipped buildings.

This expansion has been developed for the Carcassonne basic game. All the basic game rules still apply in addition to the expansion rules below. You can combine it with other expansions - but at your own risk – that is, there will be no official rules for these combinations.

Contents

  • 10 new bookmaker land tiles featuring a betting office.
  • 36 betting chips
Bookmaker tiles
Betting office
Betting chips

Rules

Preparation

Each player receives 6 betting chips in their color and places them face down in front of them. Shuffle the 10 bookmaker tiles of this expansion together with the other land tiles.

Placing bets

Bets C3 Feature Betting Office.png

If you draw a tile with a betting office depicted, carry out all three actions according to the usual rules 1. Place a tile, 2. Place a meeple and possibly also 3. Score points. Then, perform the new action 4. Place bets unless it is the last tile in the game.

4. Place bets

Everyone may choose one of their own betting chips from their supply and place it face down on the betting office on the tile. Stack the chips of all players onto the betting office. You may always look at the face down chips in front of you.

If all roads and cities are already finished after placing the bookmaker tile, no betting chips are placed.

Attention:

  • All chips already lying on tiles stay face down until the scoring. You may not look at those chips!
  • If the last tile to be placed depicts a betting office, no more chips are to be placed.

Settling bets

When a city or road with bookmaker tiles is completed, you will also score the bets on them.

3. Score points

Settling a bet

When scoring a road or city with segments on one or more bookmaker tiles with betting chips on it, those betting chips must be scored after the usual scoring. To do so, flip them over.

  • If the number on your chip matches the number of tiles in the completed road or city, you score points.
  • If your number does not match the number of tiles, you do not score bonus points.

Take your betting chips back into your supply after you have scored them. You may use them on new bookmaker tiles.

Exceptions:

  • If several bookmaker tiles are part of one or more scorings, you score all of them — one after another.
  • If several features with the same betting chips involved are being scored within the same turn, the player whose turn it is decides which feature the chips are being scored for. They must decide before the chips are flipped over.

Betting chips

Most betting chips depict 2 numbers. Hence, they offer 2 possibilities to bet on the right number. If you are right, you score the respective points depicted on the chip.

Bets C3 Example Token 01.png
The betting chip depicting only the number 4, requires the road or city to consist of 4 tiles exactly. In return you score double the points depicted (8 points).
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The plus sign after the numbers means that more than 7 or 8 tiles can be part of the feature to win the bet. You still only score 7 or 8 points. [1]
Example: You finish the city with your tile and score the feature. You score 10 points for the city, as usual. One of the tiles of the city has betting chips lying on it. You flip them over and settle the bet. Blue and Green have bet on the right number. Blue scores 4 points and Green scores 8 points. You missed the right number with your chip and don't score any bonus points. Now everyone takes their betting chips back into their supply.
Final Scoring

Score all remaining betting chips on tiles at the beginning of the final scoring. For the scoring, the number of tiles placed until this point applies. Before flipping over the betting chips you decide which city or road you want to score. [2] Afterwards, you proceed with the final scoring as usual.

Clarifications for new landscape tiles

Betting offices end roads and separates fields. [3]

Bets C3 Tile 01.png
This betting office separates the fields between the city and the road. The tent and the flag serve as a separation. This tile has 3 field segments.
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This betting office does not separate the field between the city and the two roads. There is a small gap not blocked by the dirt patches or the flag. This tile has 2 field segments.
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This betting office does not separate the field between the city and the road. There is a clear gap. This tile has 2 field segments.
Bets C3 Tile 04.png
This betting office separates the fields between the city and the road. The flag serves as a separation. This tile has 3 field segments.
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This betting office and a dirt road separate the fields between the city and the two roads. This tile has 3 field segments.
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This betting office does not separate the field on the tile. There is a clear gap to the top city and a narrow gap to the left city. This tile has 1 field segment.
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This betting office ends the road on the left and separates the fields on the top and left half of the tile. This tile has 3 field segments.

Other expansions

This section contains additional information about the interactions with other Carcassonne expansions.

General comments:

Interpretation from the Community The tile count considered when settling a bet is not modified by any expansions. You always consider the original number of tiles.
 Interpretation from the Community One or two triangular tiles in one square space are counted as one tile.
 Interpretation from the Community Each half of a double-sized tile is counted as a separate tile.

  • Edge case: In C2 only, the long road segment on a Markets of Leipzig tile is counted as one single road segment even if it runs across the two halves of the double-sized tile.

Interpretation from the Community A 2x2 tile is counted as 4 separate tiles.

Exp. 8 - Bridges, Castles & BazaarsExp. 8 - Bridges, Castles & Bazaars

Interpretation from the Community If on the same turn a bookmaker tile is placed, all its roads are completed and its city is converted into a castle, no betting chips are placed.
 Interpretation from the Community Building a castle on a bookmaker tile will not trigger the settlement of the bets placed on the tile. The betting chips will remain on the tile unless all its roads are already completed - these roads should have been completed when the tile was placed. Otherwise, the betting chips will be returned to their owners without scoring, since there is no valid road or city left on the tile to settle any bets.

German CathedralsGerman Cathedrals

Interpretation from the Community A bet on a road only counts a German cathedral tile once even if several road segments on the cathedral tile are connected to the same road.

The Land SurveyorsThe Land Surveyors

Interpretation from the Community The Highway scoring tile does not affect the number of tiles to be considered when settling a bet on a road.
 Interpretation from the Community The Bad Neighborhood scoring tile does not affect the number of tiles to be considered when settling a bet on a city.

Tile distribution

Total tiles: 10
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Bets C3 Tile 02.png ×1
Bets C3 Tile 03.png ×1
(C)
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(F)
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(C)
Bets C3 Tile 06.png ×1
Bets C3 Tile 07.png ×1
Bets C3 Tile 08.png ×1
(H)
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Several tiles have a small illustration on them. The letters in brackets show which illustration is on each tile:
Feature Farmhouse C3.png 
Feature Cows C3.png 
Feature Highwaymen C3.png 
Note: The small illustrations of a cowshed, a pigsty and a donkey stable are collectively referred to as sheds or stables.
Total tokens: 36

Footnotes

For Icons explanation and licensing please visit Icons page.

  1. ↑ Interpretation from the Community This means that a number with the plus sign will consider a feature with the given number of tiles or any amount larger, that is:
    • A betting chip with a 7+ will grant 7 points for a road or a city with 7 or more tiles.
    • A betting chip with a 8+ will grant 8 points for a road or a city with 8 or more tiles.
  2. ↑ Interpretation from the Community During the final scoring, each player scores their remaining bets individually. If a bet is applicable to more than one road and/or city, the player will choose one of those features on their own (no collective decision is made per betting office in this case).

     Official clarification from the publisher Question: In 3. Score points, the rules say: "If several features with the same betting chips involved are being scored within the same turn, the player whose turn it is decides which feature the chips are being scored for". If a similar situation happens at the end of the game (e.g. two incomplete cities share a betting office with bets), who makes this decision for the final scoring? Note that players may not reach an agreement by themselves due to opposed interests.

    Answer: In this case, each player decides for themselves in the final scoring. (11/2022)

  3. ↑ Interpretation from the Community The betting offices, their flags and the dirt roads on the new tiles separate fields. There are gaps between some betting offices and the nearby city segments that will not separate fields. In some cases, the gap is very narrow, and some clarifications were needed.

     Official clarification from the publisher Question: Please have a look at the image below with some areas marked in different colors and the comments for each one. You'll find:
    1) 3 areas marked in red where we understand the fields are separated. We ask for confirmation in these cases.
    2) 1 area marked in yellow where we understand the field is not separated. We ask for confirmation in this case.
    3) 2 areas marked in blue where we are not sure. We ask for advice in these cases.

    Are the fields separated at the circled areas?
    A = Not sure. There is a small gap. Please advice.
    B = Yes, the dirt road serves as a separation
    C = No, the is an important gap
    D = Yes, the flag serves as a separation
    E = Yes, the betting office and its flag serve as a separation
    F = Not sure. There is a small gap with some dirt patches. Please advice.
    The Bets Field Questions v1.jpg

    Answer: This is the answer to your question:
    1) Yes, this is correct. B, D and E are separated.
    2) This is correct, too. C is not separated.
    3) F isn’t easy, that’s right. A is not separated and F should be not separated either. (7/2024)

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